Etymology

tocology

T1O1C3O1L1O1G2Y4

Today it means: The branch of medicine that deals with childbirth. Full definition →

Ancient Greek τόκος
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromτόκος“childbirth”
  2. English todaytocology

From Ancient Greek τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”), from τίκτω (tíktō, “I give birth”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekτόκος all →

cardiotocographymultitocoustoco-tocogenetictokogenetic

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.